You live here, but do you work on a construction site?
We work in Sector No. 69.
If you take the interviews there, it will be better.
It is a new site. There are many workers there.
The work has finished on this site. There are no workers here.
The few workers who live here, have now gone to work.
If you come after 13:00 you will meet them.
People who live here - can they get work at the construction site?
Yes, they can.
Near here?
Yes.
How many people live here?
About 100-150 people.
What do you think about this - that you make such big and beautiful houses.
But you yourself live in shacks. What do you think about this?
We live here, but the company gives us a perk.
Suppose we live in houses like yours
We will have to pay a rent of Rs. 1500. Then we have to pay for the gas.
Our wages are perhaps Rs. 7000-8000.
We have come from Bihar to Delhi/Punjab to earn money.
We think - if we have less costs, we can save more
so that we can take it back home.
People who want to live in shacks - fine.
Those who don't, can take a room.
So we live here. We don't take a room.
The company provides us with some things -
water, toilets, wood, everything.
We pay for our own food to eat.
Do the police bother you?
No, the police do not trouble us.
The police go after those people
who say wrong things or misbehave after getting drunk.
The police catch them and take them away.
In one year, how many days can you find work on a construction site in Gurgaon?
We get 4 hoildays in one month.
Every Sunday.
The other 26 days we have to work.
So you can find work for 1 year?
Yes, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years. For as long as there is a project
for that many days you can get work.
How long have you been living in Gurgaon?
I have been living here for 5 years.
For 5 years? And you always worked on a construction site?
Yes.
Always? - Always.
This construction line that has been opened up,
it has been developed by DLF - this Gurgaon.
Earlier it was all a jungle.
Absolutely, 10 years ago.
No, even 6 years ago,
when we came, this building was there, but here it was all a forest.
Farms?
What farms? It was all rubble.
It was since the DLF got in that everything started to shine.